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The Blackhawk War BY HENRY LITTLE, 1875
Several years ago Black Hawk migrated to the Indian's beautiful happ-hunting grounds, "beyond that cold, dark river.
Peace- to the ashes of one of the brave, noble sons of the forest.
CONCLUSION
Now that the war has ended, and the roar and tumult of battle has ceased and those murderous, fiery passions have cooled down and those old wound have been healed, it affords us a good opportunity for a dispassionate retro spective survey of, not only the war, but more particularly the causes which led to it.
Lest it may be supposed that it was my only intention to plead and advo cate the Indians' side of the unhappy controversy, I will here state that I have given the Indians' version of the whole affair, and the reasoning which would be induced by such state of things as they represented the facts to be. In as much as the poor Indians have no -one to write history for them, I have volunteered to give their side of the question and the benefit of all the doubt ful aspects of their case. I am well aware that some people will say that the Indians never owned that land, and that their ancestors never owned it, an that all the Indians are a worthless set of vagabonds and have no right to liv and that a great mistake was made when they were created.
At the focal point between Fort Winnebago and the Mississippi river, when that war raged, and more particularly on the bank of that river where began, probably it was a small affair at first, but its- circle rapidly extender Soon the news of those barbarous atrocities started on their travels, and with the speed of a race horse. That intelligence was soon greatly exaggerate in form and in detail, and thus if flew as on the wings of the wind and spread like wildfire, and increased in volume and strength with the distance traveled.
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